Social. To encourage respect and care for self and others, to promote friendship.
- "Meeting" circle activities
- Make believe
- Group music and dance
- Exposure through books to diverse races, cultures and to physical differences between people
- Visit community helpers
- Opportunities to spend time with alternate caregivers
- Occasional visitors from outside the immediate Daycare community
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Emotional. To enhance self-esteem, to encourage full and appropriate expression of emotion.
- Talking about feelings when the situations warrants
- Encouraging children to deal openly with their feelings and to learn about others' feelings
- Encouraging discussion of emotion in response to music and dance
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Cognitive. To expose children to a broad range of appropriately challenging intellectual stimuli.
- Challenging children to think through problems
- Exposing children to colors, shapes, numbers, letters, seasons
- Science activities that teach about animals and how things grow
- Reading to children daily
- Puzzles
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Language. To foster and promote linguistic ability and to instill respect for, and enjoyment of, language.
- Modeling speech
- Storytelling, poetry reading
- Puppetry
- Listening and encouraging children to express themselves
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Gross and Fine Motor Skills. To provide appropriately challenging opportunities for children to develop and refine motor development.
- Bike riding, climbing structures, rocking boat, skates
- Clay, play dough
- Outside trips
- Puzzles, duplos, legos, Lincoln logs, etc.
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Program Objectives
